The writer avoids the danger of grouping together too many real incidents. What he describes may have occurred in the exact order in which he narrates them. Who has not been annoyed in a stage-coach with many a grumbler who might have furnished the original of Squire Stock? 17.-The Three Last Things: the Resurrection of the Body, the Day of Judgment, and Final Retribution, by Rev. Joseph Tracy. Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1839. pp. 104. This book would make an excellent tract for universal circulation. It is a clear, solemn, and earnest presentation of subjects which deeply concern every human being. It is sufficiently argumentative, while its practical bearings are most obvious. We cannot forbear strongly to commend it to all with whom our opinion may be of any value. 18.-The Poets of America: Illustrated by one of her Painters. Edited by John Keese. New York: S. Colman, 1840. pp. 284. A specimen of this work has been submitted to us by the publisher, which we have examined with pleasure. It is an Annual, "got up" in a style of most exquisite beauty; and, as is usual with publications of this class, it "takes time by the fore lock," and antedates the coming year; that it may be ready, in the tasteful elegance of its costume, to greet the comers thereunto with a smiling welcome. The volume is wholly composed of short pieces selected from the works of American Poets, whose names are ingeniously wrought into the frontispiece. A large number of these effusions of fancy and feeling are accompanied with graceful and delicate sketches designed and executed expressly for this work, by one of our most distinguished artists. These are beautiful and spirited illustrations not only of scenes and persons described by the Poets, but also of their elegant imaginings. The writers are Drake, Halleck, Sprague, Woodworth, Bryant, Peabody, Longfellow, Percival, Wilcox, Willis, Dana, Holmes, Pierpont, Hilhouse, Sigourney, Mellen, etc. etc. To speak of each one of this collection of gems would be as useless as it is impossible, in our brief notice. To a lover of poetry, for its own sake, that beautiful and airy imagination, the "Culprit Fay," by Drake, is well worth the price of the book; and he who reads the "Last Leaf," by Holmes, will hardly be willing to lay aside his volume until he has treasured it up in his memory. ADDITIONAL NOTICES. The following publications are on hand, some of which will be further noticed hereafter: The Young Lady's Guide to the Harmonious Development. of Christian Character, by Harvey Newcomb. Boston, James B. Dow, 1839. Tacitus, and Cicero de Oratore, New-Haven Editions, 1839. Poems by W. T. Bacon. New-Haven, B. & W. Noyes, 1839, pp. 214. Criticisms, Sermons, etc. of Rev. William W. Hunt, with a Brief Memoir. Amherst, J. S. & C. Adams, 1838. Transplanted Flowers, or Memoirs of Mrs. Rumpff, Daughter of John Jacob Astor, Esq., and the Dutchess de Broglie, Daughter of Madame de Stael: with an Appendix. By Robert Baird. New-York, John S. Taylor, 1839, pp. 159. The Child's Book of Devotion; or Prayers and Instructions in Verse, suited to the various Relations and Conditions of Childhood and Youth: in Two Parts. By John A. Murray. With an Introduction, by Rev. William Patton, D. D. NewYork, Taylor & Dodd, 1839, pp. 108. The Military Profession in the United States, and the Means of Promoting its Usefulness and Honor; an Address delivered before the Dialectic Society of the Corps of Cadets of the Military Academy, West Point, at the close of the Annual Examination, June 19, 1839. Ry Benjamin F. Butler. New-York, S. Colman, 1839. Addresses delivered at the Inauguration of the Professors of Middlebury College, March 18, 1839. Middlebury, 1839, pp. 56. This pamphlet contains the Addresses of four Professors, viz. Messrs. Stoddard, Adams, Twining, and Hough, and contains highly valuable views and suggestions. An Address delivered in South Hadley, Mass., July 24, 1839, at the Second Anniversary of the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. By Rufus Anderson, D. D. Boston, Perkins & Marvin, 1839. The College System of Education. A Discourse delivered before the Trustees of Hamilton College, May 8, 1839. By Simeon North, on the occasion of his Inauguration as President of the College. Utica, Bennett & Bright, 1839. Minutes of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America: with an Appendix. New-York, 1839. Rev. Erskine Mason, D. D. Stated Clerk. AN ARTICLE FROM DR. ROBINSON. We have received a highly interesting article from Professor Robinson, prepared for the Repository, on "the Dead Sea, and the Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah." It came to hand too late for insertion in the present No., and will appear in our next. Dr. Robinson is now in Berlin, where he has been for several months past, diligently engaged in the preparation of his work on Palestine; the MS. of which was nearly completed, July 24. The London edition will probably be published in course of the coming winter. It will be accompanied by a new and complete map of the Holy Land, corrected from the notes of Dr. Robinson and Mr. Smith, by Prof. Berghaus, Foreign Hon. Member of the Royal Geographical Society of London, who is perhaps the most distinguished map-maker in the world. In an article, extracted from the "London Geographi cal Journal," which has just reached us, Prof. Berghaus remarks. "In the course of my life I have had in my hands many documents in reference to geographical, and especially cartographical objects, and from them have acquired the conviction that, among all oriental travellers since the time of Niebuhr, the prize is due to the late lamented Burckhardt, so far as it respects minute attention, even to things apparently indifferent, and also accuracy in the measurement of bearings and angles, and in the specification of time for the determination of distances. "This view, however, I must now essentially modify, after having carefully examined the Journals of Messrs. Robinson and Smith. The observations of these two travellers are so full and comprehensive, their notes upon the form and the features of the country so exact and definite, that the geographer is in a situation, on the basis of these specifications, to construct a special map of the territory, which may perhaps leave little more to be desired." DR. NORDHEIMER'S CONCORDANCE. Dr. Nordheimer and Mr. W. W. Turner have issued proposals for publishing by subscription a Complete Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament, with an Introduction and Appendices. It will embody all that is essential in the Concordance of Dr. Fürst, (which is now in the course of publication in Germany,) and will doubtless surpass all works of the kind within the reach of American scholars generally. It will be issued in seven parts, at one dollar each, making the price of the whole work to subscribers $7. Five hundred subscribers are required to authorize the undertaking. INDEX TO VOLUME II. noticed 249. consonants Articulate Sounds, the Natural Sig- Audebez, Rev. J. J. Sermons of, 332. tionalism? 236 Its open com- Baird, Rev. Robert, remarks on French Bible Dictionary, The Union, noticed Bible, the, Obligations of the world to, Biblical Criticisms and Remarks 480. "" re- Bride of Fort Edward, noticed 501. Bunyan, John, the Life and Times of, Bush, Rev. George, his Hebrew Gram- mar noticed 244. C. Cause and Effect, an Essay on, in 396. The power of opposite or Chapin, Rev. A. B. on the Ante-Co- Christian Perfection, Review of 143. 247. Christ's Kingdom, the Duration of, (an Civil Obedience, the Law of Christ re- Classical Works, series of, by Profes- Communion Sacramental 1. A cred- tion of Gesenius' Hebrew Gram- Condensed Commentary, noticed 495. Controversy, Religious, the cessation Cox, Rev. Samuel H., D. D. on the |